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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Thursday Opera Matinee

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: 31/03/2011

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Music: Classical: Opera

Afternoon on 3

31/03/2011

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A performance given in Vienna of Act 1 of Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte.

Act 1 of Mozart's comedy Cosi fan tutte performed in Vienna and with a cast including singers from Italy, Australia and Finland. Plus Schumann, Suk, Strauss.

Mozart's Cosi fan tutte is one of his masterpieces of comic opera - though the story has its serious side too. The scheming Don Alfonso hatches a plot (and takes a bet) to prove to two young men, Guglielmo and Ferrando, that their lovers aren't the paragons of virtue that they believe them to be. The consequences manage to be both hilarious and heart-rending. We hear Act One today and Act Two tomorrow.
After the opera we return to Prague for more in our mini-festival of music and musicians from the Czech Republic and nearby. 

Mozart: Cosi fan tutte

Act I

Fiordiligi, lady from Ferrara, sister of Dorabella ..... Caroline Wenborne, soprano
Dorabella, lady from Ferrara, sister of Fiordiligi ..... Stephanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano
Guglielmo, lover of Fiordiligi, a soldier ..... Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, baritone
Ferrando, lover of Dorabella, a soldier ..... Topi Lehtipuu, tenor
Despina, a maid ..... Anita Hartig, soprano
Don Alfonso, an old philosopher ..... Alessandro Corbelli, bass

Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Jeremie Rhorer, conductor

Schumann: Six Pieces in Canonic Form, op. 56
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

Suk: Fairytale, suite from the music for Zeyer's play 'Raduz & Mahulena"
Czech Philharmonic
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28
Czech Philharmonic
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee

Thursday Opera Matinee

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Series of fifteen operas recently recorded at some of world's greatest opera houses

Series of operas performed at venues around the world. Singers such as Bryn Terfel, Anna Netrebko, Simon Keenlyside and Joyce DiDonato perform under conductors including Seiji Ozawa and Simon Rattle

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